As you all know, Microsoft is hard at work making sure Windows 8 runs well on tablets, including a completely new, Windows Phone 7-like Metro user interface. Another similarity between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7, apparently, is that Microsoft will be controlling the hardware experience rather tightly. This all comes from Acer CEO J. T. Wang.

As a user of both, posting from a 2002 G4 PowerMac running Ubuntu 11.04, I'll say that X86-64 hardware runs a whole hell of allot better when you DIY a box around a decent quality solid capacitor mobo without intergrated graphics, a really good PSU, a really good after market air cooler and a half and a half decent lower mid range GPU.

Though I think that list will be changing a little now with AMD having decent OSS drivers, a realy fast sounding IGP on the CPU and is getting mobo manufacturers to release boards running Coreboot.

The times, they is a changin', and things are starting to look very interesting for AMD and Linux in the coming years.